Corinth Coin: T 1929 666
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Coin
Name:   T 1929 666
Title:   Byzantine Copper/Bronze Imitative Coin of Alexius I (AD 1092 - AD 1118)
Year:   1929
Coin Number:   666
Period:   Byzantine
Material:   AE
Authority:   Alexius I
Comments:   (1092 - 1118), post reform - Imitative Series
Obverse Legend:   no inscription
Obverse Type:   Jeweled, radiate cross, decorated at end of each limb with one large globule and two smaller
Reverse Legend:   no inscription
Reverse Type:   Bust of emperor wearing stemma, divitision, and jeweled loros of traditional type; holds in r. hand scepter cruciger, and in l. globus cruciger
Axis Clock:   11
Weight Description:   1.655
Weight:   1.655
Diameter:   20
Chronology:   AD 1092 - AD 1118
Findspot Description:   Theater, East Area, Athena Dump
Excavation Date: 3/1/1929
Notebook 322, p. 743, .
Notes:   Study Collection. Data Entry Funded by the Kress Foundation.
Imitation
Neatly Clipped
Paper-thin flan
Reference:   DOC IV.1, p. 236, 40a.1 ff.; Hendy, p. 88, pl. 8, 10-12
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece